Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elise Matthesen

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

No coverage in any reliable sources, and I looked quite a bit. The references on this page are mostly sourced to the subject's own writing, one reference is an obituary of someone else's that mentions her once, another contains a brief mention of her, and the 2009 Fantasy Awards page does not appear to mention her at all. In other words, there's nothing. SteamboatPhilly (talk) 18:25, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

If all she has is a nomination for a "World Fantasy Award" award (and no win), how on earth do you justify a vote to keep this article alive? There's no way that nomination makes her worthy of an article. And nothing else does either. Your "keep" vote is there without any basis at all. SteamboatPhilly (talk) 03:58, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Keep there is a whole chapter on the article's subject in a scholarly anthology. I don't know how much more reliable the available sources could be, per WP:BEFORE. Newimpartial (talk) 22:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Keep - the Queer Twin Cities source constitutes in-depth coverage in an independent scholarly work, and the WFA nomination is a mark of significant attention (which is clear if you look at what the award is, and what she was nominated for). Taken together, those are enough for a keep !vote from me. --bonadeacontributionstalk 16:04, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

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